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UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

SAMUEL VAN BUSKIRK, OF LONDON, ENGLAND. l

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 621,625, dated March 21,k 1899. Application filed July 27, 1.898. Serial No. 687,010. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL VAN BUsKIRx, horse-trainer, of 27 Yonge Park, London, N., England, have invented a new and useful lmprovement in Bridles, (for which an application for patent has been led in South Aus- Tasmania,dated February 15,1898, No. 2,101; in Western Australia, dated February 25, 1898, No. 1,967; in New Zealand, dated March l5, 1898, No. 10,420, and in Great Britain, dated July 7, 1898, No. 14,982,) of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates toan improved bridle, wherebythe pull on the rein or reins is not converted by leverage, as in the case of the ordinary curb-bit, into severe local pressure on the jaw of the horse, but is so applied as to control the entire head of the animal and so enable the most high-spirited or vicious-tempered animal to be held under complete mastery with ease.

The invention consists, essentially, of two rigid steel bits connected, at opposite sides of the horses mouth, each by a series of short links at one end only, to the corresponding end of a running headstall-strap, vwhich passes over the top of the head, the reins being respectively attached to the other ends of the bits, which are held up in the mouth by passing through rings onv the cheek-straps of the ordinary headstall. The pull of each rein therefore comes only upon that one of the bits and at that end thereof to which that rein is attached, the effect when one rein is pulled being felt not only by the pull of the bit on the mouth, but also as a pressure against the side-.of the mouth and head opposite to the rein pulled, while-when both reins are pulled the two bits are caused to assume such a crosswise position relatively to each other that the horse is prevented from taking the bit between his teeth and so rendering it ineffective, the two bits then pinching the mouth inward by a pressure extending up both sides of the head.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, wherein the bridle is represented as in use.

a a are two steel-bar bits, each connected bya series of links a at one end, the one bit to the one end and the other bit to the other `end of a strap b, which passes over the top of the head behind the ears and down each side of the head, so that the bits pass across the mouth in reverse directions and transmit the pull of the reins thereon to the strap l), and so to the sides and top of the head.

The links d a extend about three inches, more orless, upward from each side of the mouth and may be covered with leather or a piece of rubber tubing or other soft material.

vThe strap b lies beneath the ordinary headstall, without being attached thereto, except by passing freely through the loops of the brow-band. The other ends of the bits a. pass through rings d, attached to the cheekstraps c of the ordinary headstall and termi- `nate in rings e, to which the reins f are attached, therings e being too large to pass through the rings d.

I claiml. The herein-described bridle consisting in the combination with an ordinary headstall, of two rigid metal bits attached each by links at one end only to the corresponding end of a free-running strap passing over the the head, beneath the ordinary headstall and through the loops of the brow-band, the other ends of the bits passing through rings on the cheek-straps of the headstall and terminating in larger rings to which the reins are attached, substantially as specified.

2. In a bridle, the combination with the headstall, and cheek-pieces carrying a ring' 3. In a bridle, the combination-With the y .ing loosely supported by the opposite cheekpiece and having means whereby a rein may be attached, substantially as set forth.

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4. In a bridle, the combination with the cheek-piece,atwhich point it is providedwith headstall and cheek-pieces carrying a ring at a ring adapted to receive the end of a rein7 their lower ends, of a strap adapted to pass such rings being larger than the rings on the Y freely over the animals head contiguous to cheek-pieces as specified.

5 said headstall with vits ends lying against the Signed by me, the said SAMUEL VAN BUS- 15 animals jaws, a flexible connection attached KIRK, this 12th day of July, 1898.

to each lower end of said strap, a rigid bit at- SAMUEL VAN BUSKIRK. tached at one end to each flexible connection In presence ofiandhavingits opposite end extending through C. G. CLARK,

Io and supported by the ring on the opposite Y T. WZKENNARD. 

